Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERThe unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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